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Monday 24th March 2014

Asked by: Lord Hart of Tenby (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the longest time taken was for an employment and support allowance mandatory reconsideration process in (a) 2012 and (b) 2013.

Answered by Mike Penning

Mandatory reconsideration was introduced for Employment and Support Allowance for decisions notified from 28 October 2013. The Department is collecting information to understand how it is operating from the point of its introduction, including the time taken from an application for reconsideration of an ESA decision to a decision being made on the case.

At present, this data is not sufficiently robust and reliable to make available.

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